This is the first time posting on this site and I am a new member but I have been reading the board for quite awhile.
I am currently running a custom prince game and my first game with 18 civilizations. my game is marathon speed with a huge map and the only customization I have made are that each civilization requires a complete kill, the only victory condition is to capture and kill all of the other civilizations, and I modified my XML file to remove any possibilities of global warming.
My game has gone seemingly well but I have come to a major dilemma that leads to a fork in the road that I cannot seem find my way out of. My civilization is at a point where a war is inevitable. I am not the leader in technology by any means but I have traded enough to be a military contender for a possible defensive role but I have zero striking power against my long time rival pacal. Which will lead me back to my fork do I finish the Manhattan project or do I go nuke free?
I have played both eventualities first going with a nuclear war. I have enough time before Pacal invades or enough time for my preemptive strike to build many nuclear bombs and level pacals productive countryside his main resource and cities but not enough to withstand a sustained war. Choosing this path I can take a few now radioactive cities and land that was once his heartland (with ecology far far away) but still being too small in size I cant sustain a ground war.
With that choice I played my Civ for another 100 years till the mid 2020s (this point in time was 1887) with massive political fallout from my nuclear war 1 of my games superpowers and vassal chain master hates me for nuking his friend and the other is my ally but cannot hold a defensive pact for very long because he keeps going to war.
After years of prosperity and troop growth I am still no match for 6 civilizations so I stay out of wars with my new found enemies until the Ethiopia the super power that hates me open a war with an all out nuclear attack against me and his vassals follow suit and my Civ is reduced to nothing.
Going back to my original fork in the road If I dont build nukes and just concentrate on infantry Pacal will overrun my Civ with 3 or 4 Stacks of doom made up of anti tank , Calvary, and about 10 artillery each.
I just do not know what to do. Is my game winnable at all. I am attaching the save that i keep refering back to.
I am currently running a custom prince game and my first game with 18 civilizations. my game is marathon speed with a huge map and the only customization I have made are that each civilization requires a complete kill, the only victory condition is to capture and kill all of the other civilizations, and I modified my XML file to remove any possibilities of global warming.
My game has gone seemingly well but I have come to a major dilemma that leads to a fork in the road that I cannot seem find my way out of. My civilization is at a point where a war is inevitable. I am not the leader in technology by any means but I have traded enough to be a military contender for a possible defensive role but I have zero striking power against my long time rival pacal. Which will lead me back to my fork do I finish the Manhattan project or do I go nuke free?
I have played both eventualities first going with a nuclear war. I have enough time before Pacal invades or enough time for my preemptive strike to build many nuclear bombs and level pacals productive countryside his main resource and cities but not enough to withstand a sustained war. Choosing this path I can take a few now radioactive cities and land that was once his heartland (with ecology far far away) but still being too small in size I cant sustain a ground war.
With that choice I played my Civ for another 100 years till the mid 2020s (this point in time was 1887) with massive political fallout from my nuclear war 1 of my games superpowers and vassal chain master hates me for nuking his friend and the other is my ally but cannot hold a defensive pact for very long because he keeps going to war.
After years of prosperity and troop growth I am still no match for 6 civilizations so I stay out of wars with my new found enemies until the Ethiopia the super power that hates me open a war with an all out nuclear attack against me and his vassals follow suit and my Civ is reduced to nothing.
Going back to my original fork in the road If I dont build nukes and just concentrate on infantry Pacal will overrun my Civ with 3 or 4 Stacks of doom made up of anti tank , Calvary, and about 10 artillery each.
I just do not know what to do. Is my game winnable at all. I am attaching the save that i keep refering back to.